Gray's Journal Entry: ‘From its central position, Keswick may be considered as the metropolis of the Lakes; it is much frequented by strangers making the tour of the Lakes. Post-chaises go from Keswick to Penrith, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and return on intermediate days. Similar conveyances also pass through this town, from Kendal and Ambleside to Cockermouth and Whitehaven . . . The weekly market, which is held on Saturdays, is abundantly supplied, and is particularly celebrated for its delecate mountain-mutton, and for the variety of exquisitely nice fresh-water fish obtained from the neighbouring lakes. The manufactures now chiefly carried on at Keswick are coarse woollen goods, blankets, kerseys etc. Here are two museums, one or both of which should be visited by every tourist . . . The proprietors of both of these museums are intelligent guides: and both of them contain specimens of almost every variety of the mineral substances found in Cumberland together with numerous kinds of plants, British and Roman antiquities, coins, and other rarities both British and foreign.’